Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-15
HOWARD & LYONS
Oceanside Special.


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OF all that shore beside the peaceful sea,
Where spring-tides beat their long dra W
reveil.e.
Out of the Mission of San Luis Rey,
Rode Friar Pedro, in a pious way,
He saw the glebe land guiltless of furrow
He saw the wild oats rustic on the hill;
lie saw the gopher working in his burrow
He saw the squirrel scampering at hi
will"
That was a hundred years ago, ant
then, as now, San Luis Rey. or as w
now call it, Oceanside, was one of thu
loveliest of the favored spots of earth
Those old Jesuit Fathers were, in theil
pious way, real estate sharps. There i
not great and growing city in Calilor
MIA but was, in the last century. the site
of Jesuit Mission; and wherever you
encounter an old adobe building in the
form of a cross, you may look for mel.
low soil, sunny exposure, panoramic
view, and locality where the currents
of commerce must sooner or later con-
verge.
The California Southern road runs
through Oceanside; the San Diego Cen
trail Railroad Company has its surveyors
now in the field, and the line will be
run through Ell Caion, Poway, San Ber-
nardo and Escondido to Oceanside. The
Southern Pacific. which is coming from
Santa Ana down to San Diego. can
not escape passing through Ocean
'ide; and every traveller over the Atchi.
ION, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad and
he Southern Pacific railroad and the
San Diego Central railroad who looks
,ut of the car window at the hillsides
looping to the sea, and beholds them
severed with vineyards and cornfelds,
Iept green without irrigation, and then
ooks at the ocean to the southwest
yard. with its shore fringe of white lace
md its blue sparkling to the horison,
will say: "This is the loveliest spot on
,arth!-
This is the place I long have sought,
And mourned because found it not"
The country tributary to Oceansde
will, as a mere commercial fact, build
lp there the largest trading center be-
ween San Diego and Los Angeles.
There is plenty of scope there for
own of ten or fifteen thousand people,
without taking anything from either Of
he former cities, This whole coast
rom Los Angeles to San Diego will, in
i've years, be succession of gardens
md villas equal to the Mediterranean
oast from Nice to Genoa. These peo-
lie now upon the ground have chance
o buy, for few hundred dollars, lots
hat will in few years command fancy
,rices. And the growth of Oceanside
IS trade center is the smallest part of
t. As business proposition olives
md grapes can be grown at large
profit anywhere along the coast between
,ere and the Santa Margarita Canon,
without irrigation after the first year,
'ut if every olive and every raisin cost
hree times its value TO grow it, it
uonlJ ,,coba M l;Faroxoo l., %bo ,,,I,, -
II Oceanside lots, for the town does not
depend upon its commercial future
.lone. It has climate and ocean view
o sell, and though you can get plenty
# climate, the number of sites COM
an ocean view in San Diego
county is not SO great They will all
,e appropriated from first hands within
year or SO, and those who by them at
econd or third hands will have to pay
ong prices for them. And those prices
viIl be paid. If a tenderfoot is intend
ng to build ten or twenty thousand
ollar villa, do you suppose he will STOP
lalf an hour between paying three or
our thousand dollars for 10. with an
cean view and paying as many hundred
or a lot without one? We know next
o nothing, we old Californians, about
he laws that govern real estates values.
)ne year before Long Branch became
one could have bought a
,each lot for hundred dollars which
wo years afterward commanded fifteen
thousand dollars. Fashion appreciates
be value of watering-place real estate as
veil as that of Worth's bodices and
ooole's pantaloons, and this section of
,ountry is becoming fashionable. The
the pioneers of the coming
lriny, are beginning to futter their
teel.pe coats and sparkle their ten.
,arat diamonds about our hotel corri.
lors. Wait another year or two until
he society leaders of New York and
chicago, and Boston and Baltimore,
instead of encountering winter trip
lcross the Atlantic to reach Naples or
Nice, conclude to build up a winter
,ity on this coast, which can be reached
n five or six days by comfortable
pullman. You will see values jump
ike Comstock shares when Simon says
vigwag on California street.
Go to Oceanside next Sunday week,
md take with you all the cash you can
aise and buy at the auction, and keep
,uying until your money and credit are
10th exhausted. 1t will not be pos.
ible for you to make a mistake, nc
natter what price you pay. We have
he property for sale, and it will be sold
without reserve. Not that the own 81
8 unmindful of its value and of the
great advance in its value which must
Jake place. But he bought it partl,
IN credit, and the time of payment
mas come, and it must be sold. He will